How do I buy more shares in my property?
Buying more shares in your home is called 'staircasing'. You can usually staircase up to 100% of your property and this should take four stages (your lease will confirm if you can do this). Contact us via email if you want to buy more shares and we'll arrange for an independent valuation to be carried out at a cost to you. When you receive the valuation, let us know in writing or email how much more you want to buy. Find a solicitor to act for you (you'll be responsible for the fees). The valuation lasts for three months and you'll need to complete your purchase within this time.
How do I sell my share in my property?
If you wish to sell you home, you will need your home to be valued by a fellow or associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). They will then decide the amount you can sell your home for according to your share of the property. If you tell us you want to sell your home, we will try to find someone to buy your share. Rosebery have a nomination period. This is usually 8 or 12 weeks where we're allowed to find a buyer for your share (you cannot sell on the open market during this time). You're then allowed to sell your share on the open market once the nomination period has ended.
What are my repairs responsibilities as a shared owner?
As a shared owner, you are responsible for all of the repairs inside your property. You can report communal repairs in a block to us via our Report a Repair page.
I am thinking about getting a pet – am I allowed a pet in my home?
If you live in a flat, you will need permission from Rosebery to own a pet as some leases do not allow pets. If you live in a house, you may keep a pet if there are not usually any restrictions.
Some blocks have a communal sky dish, please contact us for further information and what applies to your property.
This will show you whether costs have exceeded the service charge for that year.
What if service charge costs exceed the estimated amount stated?
If costs have exceeded the amount taken in service charges then next year's service charge will rise to allow for this. The service charge will also increase in line with inflation and with other known cost increases.
What if service charge costs amount to less than the estimated figure?
If the account shows a surplus of money, service charge costs will be reduced proportionately in the following year.
Sinking funds are set up to cover the costs of internal communal areas and external redecoration and replacement of componants such as door entry systems. Sinking funds are kept with property if you decide to sell.
I would like to make some alterations to my home – can I do this?
Can I sub-let my home as a shared owner?
Under a shared ownership lease, you are not allowed to sub-let, however we may allow this for a limited period of time under certain circumstances – contact us for further information.
Please visit our Neighbourhood Inspection page to read more about estate inspections in your area.
I am experiencing financial issues – what should I do?
If you are experiencing financial issues, please contact our Income Team as soon as possible as we will be able to offer advice and support.
I am experiencing anti-social behaviour - what should I do?
Please visit our ASB advice page for further guidance around what is classed as anti-social behaviour and how it can be resolved. If it is an emergency situation, please call 999 and ask for the Police.
Do you service my boiler?
You are responsible for the maintenance and servicing of your boiler.
Am I allowed wooden flooring in my flat?
No. Our apartments are sold with carpet and your lease does not allow you to install hard flooring.
Does my rent increase each year?
The rent is reviewed and will increase in line with provisions of your lease from 1st April each year.


HCM CITY (VNS) — Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged HCM City to become one of Southeast Asia's major centres for finance, trade, science and technology by 2020.
Speaking at a meeting chaired by the General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong last week, Trong said the Party Political Bureau had agreed with the draft report on the city's socio-economic development in the 2010-2015 period and objectives of the development plan from 2015 to 2020.
The plan proposes special policies for developing the southern key economic zone. The report will be submitted to the 10th congress of the HCM City Party Committee.
Also speaking at the event, HCM City Party Committee Secretary Le Thanh Hai said in the 2015-2020 period, HCM City would aim to have seven breakthrough programmes.
These would include improvement of quality of human resources, quality of economic growth and competitiveness; administrative reform; reduction of traffic congestion and accidents, flooding, and environmental pollution; and climate change adaptation and rise in sea levels.
In addition, the city will implement a new programme on urban planning and development.
HCM City has asked the Politburo to have policies to develop the southern key economic zone or the southeastern region.
The southern region has created 37 - 38 per cent of the country's total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and contributed more than 30 per cent to GDP growth, according to Hai.
From 2005 to 2010, the region contributed 64 per cent of the state budget revenue and 62.4 percent of Viet Nam's export turnover.
Hai suggested that the central Government issue a policy to tackle four issues, including production-resource allocation, transport infrastructure construction, human-resource training and use, water-resource management and environmental protection.
New regional coordination policies under the Prime Minister's guidance would help exploit the area's potential and strengths, and develop provinces and cities in the region.
General Secretary Trong also said the city needed to create breakthroughs in improving growth quality and competitiveness, and boost science and technology application.
Last year, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued a plan in line with a Party Political Bureau conclusion on the overall development in the southern region to 2020.
The plan aimed to improve socio-economic development and maintain defense and security in the southeastern region and the southern key economic zone towards 2020.


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Q: Expo AV audio not playing on iOS/ iPhone I have used Expo AV and developed a screen in my app to play audio files fetched from my server. It works fine on Android, but doesn't play anything on iPhone.
When I play a button to play the audio which loads and plays the file
soundObject.loadAsync({ uri: this.state.file });
soundObject.playAsync();

It returns an error:

This media format is not supported. - The AVPlayerItem instance has failed with the error code -11828 and domain "AVFoundationErrorDomain".

Here is my code that loads and plays the audio :
async loadAudio() {
soundObject = new Audio.Sound();
try {
await soundObject.loadAsync({ uri: this.state.file });
console.log("File loaded: " + this.state.file);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
}

async playAudio() {
if (!this.state.isPlayingAudio) {
try {

  await soundObject.playAsync();
} catch (error) {
  console.log(error);
}

  else {
soundObject.pauseAsync();
  }
  }

I have tried changing the audio format to m4a, wav, caf  while recording and fetching the file but that did not help
I'm running the app on iPhone 7 plus, iOS 14.2
Any suggestions/ fixes, please? Thanks in advance

A: I'm passing the uri object and a second argument {shouldPlay: true} to the loadAsync method.
This plays my mp3 files from amazon server s3
await Audio.Sound.loadAsync( { uri: this.state.file }, { shouldPlay: true } )

A: You're calling loadAsync improperly.
The call should look like this:
await Audio.Sound.createAsync(
  { uri: this.state.file },
  { shouldPlay: true }
);

A: Please add this method before playing soundd view "expo-av"
const enableAudio = async () => {
await Audio.setAudioModeAsync({
playsInSilentModeIOS: true,
staysActiveInBackground: false,
interruptionModeAndroid: INTERRUPTION_MODE_ANDROID_DO_NOT_MIX,
shouldDuckAndroid: false,

})

A: I was on Expo 44, downgrading to Expo 43 did the trick. Run expo upgrade 43.

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Q: JavasScript Show first two images, and then 1 random images from an array using a class method I have all of the components for this project with the exception of a class method to show the first two images in the array (the Pokeball, and the default eevee) then randomly choose from an array one more image(eevee evolutions) and then stop.
Please be patient I am very new to this.
class Pokemon {
    constructor() {
        this.listOfCharmander = [
            "./images/pokeball.png",
            "./images/charmander/charmander0.png",
            "./images/charmander/charmander1.png",
            "./images/charmander/charmander2.png",
        ];
        this.index = 0;
        this.pokemon = document.createElement("img");
    }
    handleClick = () => {
        if (this.index < 3) {
            ++this.index;
            this.pokemon.src = this.listOfCharmander[this.index];
        }
    };
    buildPokemon = () => {
        this.pokemon.src = this.listOfCharmander[0];
        this.pokemon.classList.add("pokemon");
        this.pokemon.addEventListener("click", this.handleClick);
        main.appendChild(this.pokemon);
    };
}
const pokemon = new Pokemon();
const pokemon1 = new Pokemon();
pokemon.buildPokemon();
pokemon1.buildPokemon();

class Eevee {
    constructor() {
        this.eeveeEvolutions = [
            "/images/pokeball.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee0.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee1.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee2.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee3.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee4.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee5.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee6.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee7.png",
            "images/eevee/eevee8.png",
        ];
        this.index = 0;
        this.eevee = document.createElement("img");
    }
    handleClick = () => {
        if (this.index < 9) {
            ++this.index;
            this.eevee.src = this.eeveeEvolutions[this.index];
        }
    };
    buildEevee = () => {
        this.eevee.src = this.eeveeEvolutions[0];
        this.eevee.classList.add("eevee");
        this.eevee.addEventListener("click", this.handleClick);
        main.appendChild(this.eevee);
    };
}
const eevee = new Eevee();
const eevee1 = new Eevee();
eevee.buildEevee();
eevee1.buildEevee();

...
I apologize if my question isnt exactly clear. I need to add to my handClick method. A way display the first image (the Pokeball) and then the 2nd image (default eevee) And then randomly choose (including having it stay the same there could be no evolution at all) one more evolution from the remaining array.

A: if you always need first two images in your array then you can add extra attribute to your Eevee class to store those images path, and for random image you can add this code to your handleClick()
handleClick = () => {
        this.index=Math.floor(Math.random(2,9)*10)
        this.eevee.src = this.eeveeEvolutions[this.index];
};


Once you have purchased the juicer that suits your needs you are ready to reap the abundant health benefits of juicing.
Whenever possible use organically grown fruits and vegetables for juicing. Organic produce is grown and harvested without the use of harmful pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers or growth stimulating chemicals.
If organic produce is not available in your area consider using the new Electric Produce Cleaning Machines now on the market to protect your family from pesticides and from bacteria. See Fruit and Vegetable Washers.
Prior to juicing (if you do not use an automatic vegetable washer) always wash your fruits and vegetables by holding them under running water, and when necessary use a vegetable brush to scrub them.
Fruits that should be peeled before juicing include oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, kiwis and papayas. The peels of citrus fruits can impart a bitter flavor to the juice. Try to keep some of the white rind because it is high in bioflavanoids, and an important antioxidant.
Buy small amounts of fruits and vegetables at a time to insure freshness, usually only what you can use in one week. Always store the washed produce in the refrigerator in plastic bags to retain maximum freshness and nutrient potency.
Most fruits and vegetables still have to be sliced or cut into pieces or strips to accommodate the feeding tube of your juicer. The new Extra Large Feeding Chutes on some the the juicers such as the Breville Juicers can actually juice 5 or 6 carrots at a time without pre-cutting. After you have completed several juicing sessions you will be able to readily determine the size to cut your fruits and vegetables for easy feeding into your specific juicer.


A trust is a fiduciary arrangement through which the trustee manages assets for the benefit of third parties. A trust is commonly used to transfer wealth to heirs or to favored charitable organizations.
Insurance products, such as life insurance policies, annuity contracts and disability policies, may be used to fund trusts in appropriate circumstances.
Traditionally, advisors had to refer clients to other providers. The person appointed as your trustee should have the knowledge and capability necessary to administer sometimes complex arrangements and to meet the fiduciary duties and responsibilities that are imposed under trust law. If properly drafted by an attorney and administered by the trustee, a trust can help ensure that trust assets are managed and distributed after your death as you had desired.
*Our Representatives Do No Provide Tax Or Legal Advice. Please Consult You Tax Advisor or Attorney for Such Guidance.


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Dr. Ivo Jansen
Associate Professor & Area Head
Office: BSB 224
Email: jansen@camden.rutgers.edu
Ivo Jansen is an Associate Professor of Accounting, and has been at the Rutgers School of Business | Camden since 2007. He received his B.A. in business economics from the Hogeschool voor Economische Studies in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; his M.B.A. from Loyola University in Chicago; and his Ph.D. in accounting from Indiana University in 2001. His research focuses on valuation, earnings management, trading volume and mergers & acquisitions. It has been published in journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, among others.
Professor Jansen teaches financial accounting in the undergraduate, MBA, and the professional graduate programs. He has received Superior Achievement Awards for Teaching in the Rutgers School of Business; the Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award on the Camden campus; and The Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching at the university level.
Research Interests: Financial Statements Analysis; Valuation; Earnings Management; Mergers & Acquisitions; Trading Volume
Representative Publications:
"Investor distraction and information overload: Evidence to help managers strategically time earnings announcements," with Andrei Nikiforov and Lee W. Sanning, Journal of Business and Accounting, 2020, forthcoming.
"Fear and greed: a returns-based trading strategy around earnings announcements," with Andrei Nikiforov, The Journal of Portfolio Management 42 (4), 2016: 88-95.
"Trading volume around announcements of mergers and acquisitions," Applied Economics Letters 22 (15), 2015, 1204-1208.
"A diagnostic for earnings management using changes in asset turnover and profit margin," with Teri L. Yohn and Sundaresh Ramnath,Contemporary Accounting Research 29 (1), 2012, 221-251.
"Cashing in on managerial malfeasance: A trading strategy around forecasted executive stock option grants," with Lee W. Sanning, Financial Analysts Journal 66 (5), 2010, 85-93.
"Diversification to mitigate expropriation in the tobacco industry," with Messod D. Beneish, Melissa F. Lewis and Nathan V. Stuart, Journal of Financial Economics 89 (1), 2008, 136-157.
"Do auditor resignations convey private information about continuing audit clients?" with Messod D. Beneish, Patrick E. Hopkins, and Roger D. Martin, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 24 (5), 2005, 357-390.

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Some of the most important questions confronting us are: what should we do about this culture's industrial wastes, from greenhouse gases to pesticides to ocean microplastics?
Can the capitalists clean up the messes they create? Or is the whole industrial system beyond reform? The answers become clear with a little context.
Let's start the discussion of context with two riddles that aren't very funny.
Q: What do you get when a cross a long drug habit, a quick temper, and a gun?
A: Two life terms for murder, with earliest release date 2026.
Q: What do you get when you cross a large corporation, two nation states, 40 tons of poison, and at least 8,000 dead human beings?
A: Retirement with full pay and benefits. Warren Anderson, CEO of Union Carbide. Bhopal.
The point of these riddles is not merely that when it comes to murder and many other atrocities, different rules apply to the poor than to the rich. And it's not merely that 'economic production' is a get-out-of-jail free card for whatever atrocities the 'producers' commit, whether it's genocide, gynocide, ecocide, slaving, mass murder, mass poisoning, and so on.
The point here is that this culture is clearly not particularly interested in cleaning up its toxic messes. Obviously, or it wouldn't keep making them. It wouldn't allow those who make these messes to do so with impunity. It certainly wouldn't socially reward those who make them.
This may or may not be the appropriate time to mention that this culture has created, for example, 14 quadrillion (yes, quadrillion) lethal doses of Plutonium 239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years, which means that in a mere 100,000 years that number will be all the way down to only about 3.5 quadrillion lethal doses: Yay!
And socially reward them it does. I could have used a whole host of examples other than Warren Anderson, who was playing on the back nine long after he should have been hanging by the neck (he was sentenced to death in absentia, but the US refused to extradite him).
Q: What do you call someone who puts poison in the subways of Tokyo?
Q: What do you call someone who puts poison (cyanide) into groundwater?
A: A capitalist: CEO of a gold mining corporation.
We could talk about frackers, who make money as they poison groundwater. We could talk about anyone associated with Monsanto. You can add your own examples. I'd say you can 'choose your poison' but of course you can't. Those are chosen for you by those doing the poisoning.
Please note, by the way, that far from having antidotes, nine out of ten chemicals used in pesticides in the US haven't even been thoroughly tested for (human) toxicity.
Isn't that something we were all supposed to learn by the time we were three? Isn't it one of the first lessons our parents are supposed to teach us? Don't make a mess you can't clean up!
Yet that is precisely the foundational motivator of this culture. Sure, we can use fancy phrases to describe the processes of creating messes we have no intention of cleaning up, and in many cases cannot clean up.
And so we get phrases like 'developing natural resources', or 'sustainable development', or 'technological progress' (like the invention and production of plastics, the bathing of the world in endocrine disruptors, and so on), or 'mining', or 'agriculture', or 'the Green Revolution', or 'fueling growth', or 'creating jobs', or 'building empire', or 'global trade'.
But physical reality is always more important than what we call it or how we rationalize it. And the truth is that this culture has been based from the beginning to the present on privatizing benefits and externalizing costs. In other words, on exploiting others and leaving messes behind.
Hell, they call them 'limited liability corporations' because a primary purpose is to limit the legal and financial liability of those who benefit from the actions of corporations for the harm these actions cause.
"In order to rationalize our industrial-military complex [and I would say this entire way of life, including the creation of messes we have neither the interest nor capacity to clean up], we have to destroy our capacity to see clearly any more what is in front of, and to imagine what is beyond, our noses. Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste to our own sanity.
If you ask a reasonably intelligent thirty-year-old who works for a 'green' high tech industry, you'll probably get an answer that primarily helps the industry that pays his or her salary.
Part of the brainwashing process of turning us into imbeciles consists of getting us to identify more closely with-and care more about the fate of-this culture rather than the real physical world. We are taught that the economy is the 'real world', and the real world is merely a place from which to steal and on which to dump externalities.
Does nature have to adapt to us? Or us to nature?
Most of us internalize this lesson so completely that it becomes entirely transparent to us. Even most environmentalists internalize this. What do most mainstream solutions to global warming have in common? They all take industrialism as a given, and the natural world as having to conform to industrialism.
They all take empire as a given. They all take overshoot as a given. All of this is literally insane, in terms of being out of touch with physical reality. The real world must always be more important than our social system, in part because without a real world you can't have any social system whatsoever. It's embarrassing to have to write this.
Upton Sinclair famously said that it's hard to make a man understand something, when his job depends on him not understanding it.
I would add that it's hard to make people understand something when the benefits they accrue through their exploitative and destructive way of life depend on it. So we suddenly get really stupid about the waste products produced by this culture.
The answer to all of these is: you can't.
As I've been writing this essay about the messes caused by this culture, there's an allegorical image I can't get out of my mind. It's of a half-dozen Emergency Medical Technicians putting bandages on a person who has been assaulted by a knife-wielding psychopath.
The EMTs are trying desperately to stop this person from bleeding out. It's all very tense and suspenseful as to whether they'll be able to staunch the flow of blood before the person dies.
But here's the problem: as these EMTs are applying bandages as fast as they can, the psychopath is continuing to stab the victim. Worse, the psychopath is making wounds faster than the EMTs are able to bandage them. And the psychopath is paid very well for stabbing the victim, while most of the EMTs are bandaging in their spare time.
And in fact the health of the economy is based on how much blood the victim loses – as in this culture, where economic production is measured by the conversion of living landbase into raw materials, e.g., living forests into two-by-fours, living mountains into coal.
How do we stop the victim from bleeding out? Any child can tell you. And any sane person who cares more about the health of the victim than the health of the economy that is based on dismembering the victim can tell you. The first thing you need to do is stop the stabbing. No amount of bandages will make up for an assault that is ongoing, indeed, one that is accelerating.
What do we do about this culture's fabrication of industrial wastes? The first step is stop their production. Actually the first step is that we regain our sanity, that is, we transfer our loyalty away from the psychopaths, and toward the victim, toward, in this case, the planet that is our only home.
Once we do that, everything else is technical. How do we stop them? We stop them.
Derrick Jensen is Member of the Steering Committee of Deep Green Resistance. See more details. Read Derrick Jensen's blog.
This piece originally ran in The Ecologist.
Derrick Jensen is the author of numerous books, including Endgame, Listening to the Land, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution, and co-author of Deep Green Resistance.


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45 Ohio Fun Facts
1. Fifty percent of the United States population lives within a 500-mile radius of Columbus, Ohio.
2. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was from Wapakoneta, Ohio.
3. It is illegal to fish for whales on a Sunday in Ohio… not that there's any place to do that. Well, at least you can fish for them every other day of the week.
4. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the early motion picture camera, was from Milan.
5. Akron was the first city to use police cars.
6. Ohio has the largest Amish population of any state in the nation.
7. John Lambert of Ohio City made America's first automobile in 1891.
8. The first full-time automobile service station opened in 1899 in Ohio.9. Oberlin College, founded in 1833, was the first interracial and coeducational college in the United States.
9. Oberlin College, founded in 1833, was the first interracial and coeducational college in the United States.
10. Seven United States presidents were born in Ohio: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding. Must be something in the water.
11. There is an alley dedicated to drummer Dave Grohl in his hometown of Warren, Ohio.
12. The largest drum sticks in the world are in David Grohl Alley, each measuring 23 feet long and weighing a half-ton.
13. The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton.
14. Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public in Ohio. The reasoning? So that men can't see reflections of the women's underwear in their shoes. Obviously.15. Life Savers candy was invented by Clarence Crane of Garrettsville, Ohio in 1912. They were touted as a "summer candy" since they didn't melt like chocolate.
15. Life Savers candy was invented by Clarence Crane of Garrettsville, Ohio in 1912. They were touted as a "summer candy" since they didn't melt like chocolate.
16. Some well-known personalities were born in Ohio. Among them are Steven Spielberg, Paul Newman, Annie Oakley, Arsenio Hall and Clark Gable.
17. It is illegal for more than five women to live in one house in Ohio.
18. The world's largest horseshoe crab is more than 55 feet long, and lives in Blanchester.
19. Ohio's state flag is not a rectangle like other flags—it's a pennant design, and it's the only state flag in the United States with that design.
20. By state law, no one may be arrested on a Sunday or on the Fourth of July in Ohio, which is totally awesome and definitely not enforced.
21. Roy J. Plunkett of New Carlisle, Ohio invented Teflon in 1938.
22. You can take tours of a house made entirely of trash, affectionately referred to as 'House of Trash' in Philo. Spoiler: It's actually totally cool.
23. There's a mysterious rolling sphere in the Marion Cemetery. The 5,200-pound sphere of granite has been revolving on its base since it was placed there in the late 1800s. "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" featured it in 1929. It's still moving at an average of two inches per year.
24. The first airplane was invented by Dayton natives the Wright Brothers.
25. The Great Serpent Mound, the largest serpent effigy in the world at a half mile long, is on a plateau overlooking Brush Creek Valley in Adams County.
26. The largest, most comprehensive collection of historical contraceptives in the world is at the Dittrick Museum of Medical History in Cleveland.
27. The very first mechanical cash register was invented in Dayton.
28. The first concrete street in America, which is still in use today, was poured in 1891 near the Logan County Courthouse in Bellefontaine.
29. If a restaurant wants to serve horse meat in Ohio, they must display a sign that says, "Horse Meat Served Here." Thank goodness for that.
30. There is a double Futuro House, aka UFO House, in Carlisle.
31. The first capital city of Ohio wasn't Columbus—it was Chillicothe, which is now part of the Greater Columbus Metropolitan Area.
32. In 1879, Cleveland became the first city to be lighted by electricity.
33. Akron is the rubber capital of the world.
34. It is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places in Cleveland.
35. "Hang On Sloopy" is the official state rock song.
36. Ohio is the leading producer of greenhouse and nursery plants.37. The Lake Erie Monster, aka "Bessie," is a serpent-type monster that lives in Lake Erie, or at least it's been sighted a lot over the last 100 years. The New York Times even did a story on it in 1931.
37. The Lake Erie Monster, aka "Bessie," is a serpent-type monster that lives in Lake Erie, or at least it's been sighted a lot over the last 100 years. The New York Times even did a story on it in 1931.
38. The Glacial Grooves on the north side of Kelleys Island are the largest and most easily accessible great ice sheet grooves in the world. They were created 18,000 years ago by the great ice sheet that covered part of North America.
39. Dresden is the home of the world's largest basket. It is located at Basket Village USA.
40. There is an 'Unofficial Lego Museum' in Bellaire and it has some of the coolest lego creations known to man.
41. For many years the patrons of Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop in Greenville have been sticking their gum outside the walls. Three of the building's four walls are covered in gum, creating the infamous 'Wall of Gum'.
42. In Dublin there's a public art installation called 'Field of Corn (with Osage Orange Trees)'. By the locals it's called 'Cornhenge' and features 109 ears of concrete corn that stand eight feet tall. It's a tribute and celebration of Sam Frantz, who invented hybrid corn species.
43. There is a permanent 'Things Swallowed' display at the Allen County Museum in Lima that featured things that have been swallowed and retrieved by doctors, including buttons, thumbtacks, bones, coins, dentures and other things swallowed.
44. There is a shrine called the 'Temple of Tolerance' in Wapakoneta, that looks like it should be somewhere sacred, but it's in Jim Bowsher's backyard. He's the temple master and gives free tours every day.
45. Ohio holds the record for the world's largest basket, the Longaberger Company headquarters building in Newark. It's seven stories high and 180,000 square feet.
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News and convictions weekly roundup
Please find below a round-up of last week's convictions and news relating to Peterborough. If you wish to see all news please visit the news section on our website https://www.cambs.police.uk/news-and-appeals/news-and-appeals.
Man wanted in connection with multiple offences
We are asking for your help to trace a man who is wanted in connection with a number of crimes.
Harry Smith, 27, is wanted on two court warrants in relation to taking a vehicle without the owner's consent, traffic offences and recall to prison.
https://www.cambs.police.uk/news-and-appeals/harry-smith-wanted
Men arrested in connection with keyless car thefts
Two men were arrested yesterday afternoon (Thursday, 9 May) in connection with recent thefts of keyless vehicles.
Officers stopped the suspects on the B1043 at Sawtry at about 1pm. A 28-year-old man from Boston was arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle.
https://www.cambs.police.uk/news-and-appeals/Men_arrested_keyless_car_thefts
Son jailed for eight years after attempting to kill elderly mother
A judge has sentenced a man to eight years in prison for the attempted murder of his elderly mother last year.
Mark Calvert Elliott, 54, of Wingfield, Orton Goldhay, denied he was trying to kill his 82-year-old mother on 9 October, despite attempting to suffocate her
https://www.cambs.police.uk/news-and-appeals/Mark-Calvert-Elliott-sentencing
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Siobhan Hood, 25, travelled to a property in Chadburn, Paston, Peterborough, at about 9pm on 14 January last year.
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Genetic and Epidemiological Studies of Dengue Type 2 Viruses by Hybridization Using Synthetic Deoxyoligonucleotides as Probes
Jo Anne H. Kerschner1, A. Vance Vorndam1, Thomas P. Monath1, Dennis W. Trent1
Affiliations: 1 Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, P.O. Box 2087, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522, U.S.A.
A rapid nucleic acid hybridization procedure was developed for examining the genotypic variation of dengue type 2 viruses (DEN 2) having distinct RNase T1 fingerprints and isolated from different geographical areas. Synthetic DNA hybridization probes were constructed complementary in nucleotide sequence to common and unique RNase T1 oligonucleotides of topotype viruses from Puerto Rico/South Pacific, Jamaica, the Seychelles, Thailand/Burma and Africa. Hybridization probes with both type- and topotype-specific reactivities were observed, as were probes specific for two or more of the DEN 2 topotypes. These results confirm geographical movement of topotype virus strains and suggest possible origins. Detection of DEN 2 RNA by hybridization is a rapid and reproducible method that can be modified and applied as a viable alternative to the laborious T1 oligonucleotide fingerprinting.
Keyword(s): dengue type 2 virus , genotypic variation and hybridization
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Interferons and viruses: an interplay between induction, signalling, antiviral responses and virus countermeasures
Richard E. Randall and Stephen Goodbourn


Douglas Ward, M.D., has spent his entire professional career with the Dupont Circle Physicians Group in Washington D.C., a private practice, where he specializes in the treatment of AIDS and HIV-related disorders. He is a clinical assistant professor at George Washington University School of Medicine and a clinical associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Dr. Ward received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, followed by a medical doctorate from New Jersey Medical School. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital of Cornell Medical Center. His fellowship at the National Institutes of Health involved research in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, investigating the immune response to filarial infections. Dr. Ward has received board certification in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
In addition, Dr. Ward is an investigator with both the Washington Regional AIDS Consortium, a national community-based AIDS research network, and HIV Outpatient Study, a CDC sponsored national observational database. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the Greater Washington Infectious Disease Society.
Dr. Ward has co-authored numerous articles on HIV and AIDS in such publications as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and American Journal of Medicine. He has also been contributed to over twenty abstracts that have been presented at conferences, nationwide.
Dr. Ward's participation in The Body's coverage of The 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is sponsored, in part, by unrestricted educational grant from Glaxo Wellcome.


62. On 5 March, the British and French Foreign Secretaries issued a joint statement designed to put on record their views on the goals for the next round of talks, emphasising that an invited international military force was an integral part of the package; that those who put obstacles in the way of the successful realisation of the Accords would be held responsible; and that any who had recourse to violence would contravene the commitments they had made to the international community and would have to answer for their actions. A series of international visitors, including Holbrooke, went to Belgrade in the week of 9 March, but none made any headway with Milosevic. With prospects for a deal looking bleak, planning in Whitehall focused increasingly on the possibility that there might be further atrocities by Belgrade's security forces, or a sustained military campaign against the Kosovo Albanians, or that the Serbs might blatantly refuse to accept the Accords.
63. When the talks reconvened at the Kleber Centre in Paris on 15 March, it rapidly became apparent that the FRY/Serbian side had no intention of negotiating seriously. Indeed, they resiled from their Rambouillet commitments to accept the principle of a political settlement and to discuss all aspects of implementation. The Kosovo Albanian delegation signed the Rambouillet Accords on 18 March. Against the backdrop of total Serbian intransigence and renewed offensives in Kosovo, with reports of up to 250,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), the UK and French co-chairs decided the talks were going nowhere. They were adjourned on 19 March. The British and French Foreign Ministers sent a joint message to Milosevic saying that the Accords remained on the table, urging him to accept them and warning him against any military offensive. At the same time, they wrote to Thaqi, welcoming his delegation's acceptance of the agreement and stressing the need for all provocations to be avoided in the critical period ahead.
64. On 19 March the OSCE Chairman-in-Office decided to withdraw the KVM the next day as, following the unsuccessful outcome to the negotiations in Paris, the situation in Kosovo had deteriorated to such an extent that it was becoming increasingly difficult for the Mission to carry out its task safely.
65. In the year leading up to 20 March around 500 ethnic Albanians had been killed in atrocities and over 400,000 people at various times displaced from their homes. Although during the deployment of KVM Serbian forces were to some extent constrained by the presence of observers, eye-witness accounts indicated that Serbian operations were frequently brutal and included many instances of beatings and torture followed by summary executions. There were also many instances of mistreatment of women and children. As noted above, there was a particular up-surge in violence around Christmas 1998 and again in January 1999, but Serb police and military activity continued throughout, including when the negotiations were going on in France. During the Kleber talks in Paris there were reports of forces massing in and around Kosovo and by 19 March there were reports that the offensive against the KLA and ethnic Albanian civilians had intensified significantly, driving thousands of Kosovo Albanians from their homes, carrying out summary executions and destroying property.
66. Holbrooke paid a final visit to Belgrade on 22/23 March, but failed to convince Milosevic to agree to a ceasefire and political process. On 23 March, Solana confirmed that he had given authority to SACEUR to begin the air campaign, which began the following night.
67. Before NATO's air campaign began on 24 March, a new Serbian offensive was underway. There were strong grounds for expecting that Milosevic was embarking on a further onslaught which would involve civilian casualties, the further destruction of villages and the displacement of their inhabitants.
68. As the Foreign Secretary told the Foreign Affairs Committee on 14 April, the UK was aware that a spring offensive against the KLA had been planned before the start of NATO airstrikes, and knew from previous experience that it was likely to be accompanied by ethnic cleansing. This had already happened in Summer 1998, when a quarter of a million ethnic Albanians were driven from their homes. It was precisely because there was good reason to anticipate that Milosevic's forces would intensify repression in Kosovo that NATO agreed unanimously that we had to act. In the event, the systematic and ruthless character of the ethnic cleansing, such as the mass deportation by shuttle trains of the population of Pristina, exceeded any reasonable anticipation.
69. NATO's air campaign began with airstrikes on air defences across the FRY and a limited range of targets in Kosovo and elsewhere in southern Serbia. As has been noted, the international community had made its demands to Belgrade clear in a series of public and private messages. Milosevic had the option at any stage of acceding to those demands. He failed to do so. His response was instead to continue at an accelerated pace his attempt to achieve the final destruction of the KLA and the up-rooting and expulsion of Kosovo's Albanian population.
70 When Milosevic showed no sign of responding to the opening phase of air strikes, NATO decided in late March to widen the range of air strikes to cover carefully selected targets of high military value throughout the FRY. On 29 March, NATO warned that Milosevic and his military commanders would be held responsible for war crimes committed in Kosovo.
"The action being taken is legal. It is justified as an exceptional measure to prevent an overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe."
72. NATO troops played a key role in the international community's response to the ruthless expulsion of 775,000 Kosovo Albanians to Macedonia and Albania, and a further 90,000 to Montenegro and Bosnia. Forces already in Macedonia, especially the initial elements of what was to become NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR), quickly assumed a leading role in the management of the refugee inflow, feeding refugees and by early April had begun to erect large camps. In the first half of April, NATO established a new force in Albania—AFOR—under UK command, to respond to the humanitarian crisis there.
73. In concert with our EU partners, the UK took prompt action to ensure the protection of the refugees. On 3 April the Foreign Secretary called for the establishment of sanctuaries to provide places of safety in the region for refugees. The Development Secretary travelled to Macedonia and Albania on 4-5 April, where she secured Macedonian agreement that incoming refugees would be sheltered at a British-built camp at Brazde. By 10 April, British soldiers had established a camp of 17,000 tents, capable of accommodating 50,000 refugees. Other NATO forces established camps in Macedonia and Albania. The Prime Minister visited Albania, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria during May in order to bolster regional confidence in and support for NATO's efforts.
— to permit the international community to verify compliance with the above undertakings.
The Secretary-General urged NATO to suspend air strikes upon acceptance by the Yugoslav authorities of these conditions.
— provide credible assurance of his willingness to work on the basis of the Rambouillet Accords in the establishment of a political framework agreement for Kosovo in conformity with international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
76. On the diplomatic front, the Russians made an early proposal for a G8 Ministerial, but on the unacceptable condition that NATO airstrikes should stop, which would have allowed serbian repression to continue unchecked. A 7 April meeting of Contact Group political Directors in Brussels failed to establish sufficient common ground for such a Ministerial. Allied Foreign Ministers consulted regularly on how best to pursue engagement with the Russians and diplomatic strategy generally. This was matched by close coordination between Defence and Development Ministers.
— provide credible assurances of his willingness to work for the establishment of a political framework based on the Rambouillet accords.
78. Shortly before the summit, Solana had said that NATO military planners would be updating their assessments and plans for all contingencies. Reporting on the Summit to the House of Commons, the Prime Minister said there had been discussions on the circumstances in which ground troops would be deployed to Kosovo, and made it clear that Milosevic had no VETO over NATO's actions. The build up of NATO forces in the region as the basis for a peace implementation force continued and was later accelerated as a result of NATO's revised plans.
79. What proved to be a key breakthrough on the diplomatic front came on 6 May when G8 Foreign Ministers, meeting in Bonn, agreed principles to resolve the Kosovo crisis, fully consistent with NATO's conditions for ending airstrikes. The principles provided a solid foundation for continuing engagement with the Russians. Work began to develop a road map to end the conflict and a draft Security Council resolution (both UK drafted), which underpinned the round of talks in Helsinki and Moscow between President Yeltsin's special envoy for Kosovo Victor Chernomyrdin, US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Finnish President Ahtisaari whose role in the diplomatic effort on behalf of the European Union was confirmed by EU Foreign Ministers on 17 May.
80. After a week of intensive meetings, Ahtisaari, Chernomyrdin and Talbott agreed on 2 June a text specifying withdrawal of "all" FRY/Serbian forces from Kosovo and "substantial NATO participation" in an international security presence, under unified command and control. Ahtisaari and Chernomyrdin flew to Belgrade to present the text to Milosevic. Milosevic informed them on 3 June that the Serbian Parliament and the Federal Government had accepted the text. Ahtisaari then travelled to Cologne to brief the European Council. G8 Foreign Ministers gathered in Bonn on 7 June and, in a long session, made substantial progress towards agreement on the draft Security Council resolution. The meeting was suspended overnight to allow Ivanov to consult President Yeltsin. When Ministers reconvened in Cologne the following morning the remaining issues were speedily resolved with agreement being reached on test incorporating the G8 principles of 6 May and the provisions of the Ahtisaari/Chernomyrdin text agreed by Milosevic on 3 June.
81. On 9 June KFOR and the FRY signed a Military Technical Agreement (negotiated by KFOR Commander Lieutenant General Sir Mike Jackson with FRY military representatives) on the terms of and timetable for withdrawal of serb forces from Kosovo. Withdrawal began on 10 June. Following verification that Withdrawal was underway, the NATO Secretary-General suspended the air campaign, and UNSCR 1244 was adopted on 10 June, demanding FRY co-operation in implementing the G8 principles and the Ahtisaari/Chernomyrdin text; authorising the establishment of an international security presence (now KFOR) to create secure conditions for the safe return of refugees and of the interim civil presence in Kosovo (the UN Mission in Kosovo, UNMIK) to provide a transitional administration, and outlining the main responsibilities of the two presences. The first NATO troops entered Kosovo on 12 June. Despite Russian assurances that they would not deploy forces to Kosovo before joint command arrangements with NATO had been agreed, on the night of 11-12 June a small Russian force moved to Pristina airport. There was concern that this might complicate KFOR's overall deployment. In the event, arrangements for the inclusion of Russian forces in KFOR were agreed, after further negotiations in Moscow and on the ground, in Helsinki on 18 June.
82. The withdrawal of FRY/Serbian forces from Kosovo was completed on 20 June, ahead of schedule, when the NATO Secretary-General terminated the air campaign. On 21 June, the KFOR Commander accepted a demilitarisation undertaking from the KLA Commander-in-Chief Hashim Thaqi, and on 30 June the FARK (Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo, a smaller Kosovo Albanian armed faction) declared they would demilitarise on the same terms.
83. There were probably several reasons for the rapid capitulation by Belgrade in early June. First, Milosevic had almost certainly calculated that NATO unity would crack, that neighbouring countries would collapse under the pressure of refugees, that airstrikes would halt and that he could complete unconstrained his programme of ethnic cleansing. He must have realised that he had miscalculated. As the conflict continued, and confronted by the full horror of Milosevic's brutal agenda, Alliance unity strengthened, bound together by a constant round of contacts at Ministerial level.
84. NATO demonstrated willingness to increase the pressure through the intensification of airstrikes (from around 100 sorties a day in late March to 500 sorties a day in late May). Damage from the NATO airstrikes would have been a significant factor. Well over 400 static targets were attacked, and more than three hundred suffered moderate to severe damage. There is clear evidence that airstrikes against Milosevic's forces in the field were successful in restricting their operations. But an account simply of targets hit cannot capture the deterrent effect of the air action—the extent to which Yoguslav tanks and other assets had to remain immobile. Nor can any purely numerical assessment judge the wider impact of the military campaign in influencing Milosevic's decisions and, ultimately his decision to concede. Air operations had an impact on public opinion in Serbia: from an early stage, there were reports of mothers demonstrating against their sons being forced to serve in Kosovo.
85. A key development during the activity which proved to be the diplomatic endgame was the 27 May announcement by International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of the indictment of Milosevic and four other senior regime figures (including Milutinovic and General Odjanic, Chief of the General Staff of the FRY armed forces) for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war. Some commentators speculated that the Tribunal's indictment of Milosevic would harden him in a "bunker mentality" and frustrate progress towards a diplomatic solution. In fact, the indictment appears to have added to the psychological pressure on him to strike a deal, although there was and is no prospect of him being given any sort of amnesty.
86. Finally, despite the acknowledged difference of view between Russia and NATO on airstrikes, Milosevic appears eventually to have got the message that there were limits to the support Belgrade could expect from Moscow. Instead, as a result of the work done by Chernomyrdin, Ahtisaari, Talbott and the G8, Milosevic was confronted by an increasingly united international community, with an agreed list of demands they insisted he had to meet.
87. The reversal of Milosevic's ethnic cleansing, with the return of the Kosovo refugees, and the insistence on a fair political solution represented a significant defeat for the forces of repression in the Balkans, and involved intense activity by the international community as a whole—in NATO, the UN, the EU, the G8 and the Contact Group.
88. The UK played a leading role in focusing international attention on Kosovo and determining the shape of the international community's response to the crisis. In 1997, the UK put Kosovo on the Contact Group's agenda. When violence flared in early March 1998, the Foreign Secretary travelled to Belgrade to urge Milosevic to offer moderate Kosovo Albanians a political alternative and, with the authority of the EU Presidency, to emphasise that improvement in FRY/EU relations was impossible while Belgrade's policies continued. The 9 March 1998 Contact Group meeting in London set the agenda for international efforts in the months ahead. Apart from its bilateral activities with both the government in Belgrade (including two personal letters from the Prime Minister to President Milosevic), the UK drafted or co-sponsored all the key Kosovo resolutions and played a key role in developing status models and refining the Hill proposals. We convened the Contact Group Ministerial on 8 October1998 which gave Holbrooke his mandate to negotiate with Milosevic. With France, we co-chaired the talks at Rambouillet and Kleber. The Foreign Secretary played a leading role in securing Russian agreement to the text of SCR 1244, establishing the international civil and military presences in Kosovo. The UK led efforts to get verifiers on the ground quickly, in the ultimately unsuccessful effort to make the October 1998 Holbrooke package stick. The British Embassy in Belgrade was in regular high-level contact with key players in Belgrade and Pristina throughout 1998 and early 1999.
89. The UK played a key role in shaping events in NATO. In particular, the UK's intensive contacts with key Allies helped strengthen Alliance cohesion at crucial moments. One important example was the Foreign Secretary's visit to Washington on 20-21 May and his visits to Paris, Rome and Bonn on 26 May, which underlined NATO's unity of purpose and made clear that planning for various ground troop options was under active consideration. Throughout the crisis in 1998 and 1999, UK influence, exerted through the formal decision processes in the North Atlantic Council and Military Committee and through close and regular contacts with NATO'S key decision-makers, was instrumental in ensuring that NATO had at its disposal a range of militarily credible options and that NATO's objectives for the military campaign reinforced the demands of international community.
90. On the humanitarian front, the UK spear-headed the need to find effective solutions to the unfolding refugee crisis in March/April 1999. The Department for International Development set the strategic objectives of providing rapid assistance to refugees, protecting their dignity and rights, helping host communities come to terms with the influx and planning for further contingencies. Its broad range of activities included bolstering the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as lead agency for refugees; channelling assistance through UN agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations; advising host governments on planning and finances; and working with the EU and the International Financial Institutions to minimise the impact of refugees on regional economies. UK troops in KFOR set up Macedonia's most significant "frontline" camp at Brazde/Stenkovac when the resources of the civilian agencies were at full stretch.
91. The UK supported the EU's policy of helping refugees to stay in the region wherever possible. Our contribution to this was worth £40m in total, largely made up of in-kind support including airlifts of personnel and supplies, logistics management on the ground, support to UN agencies and NGOs, and building camps. At the same time, we recognised that some of those massing at entry points in Macedonia were in need of immediate protection, and took part in the humanitarian evacuation programme led by UNHCR, extending comprehensive protection programmes to over 4,000 refugees. The UK approach of help to the region and protection for those whose needs were most urgent was vindicated by the overwhelming rate of return since KFOR's entry into Kosovo.
92. The UK played the key role in the early stages of implementing the military aspects of the settlement in Kosovo, and will continue to play a major part in stabilisation. The UK was by far the biggest troop contributor to KFOR in the initial period, and Lieutenant-General Sir Mike Jackson played a critical role in negotiating the FRY/NATO agreement on modalities for withdrawal of Serb forces. The British AFOR commander Lieutenant-General John Reith did most of the face-to-face work to negotiate the terms of the demilitarisation undertaking made by the KLA, subsequently also made by the FARK.
93. The UK is giving strong support to UNMIK. We were the first country to contribute to the UN Trust Fund for Kosovo. We are providing a wide range of support, from policemen and prison officers to healthcare services and mine clearance teams. A fuller account of the current UK effort is at Annex B.
94. This UK activity is a major part of the international effort to restore normal life to Kosovo, as part of the wider strategy of promoting peace and stability in the Balkans. This will be covered in our second Memorandum, which concentrates on the main themes of and lessons learned from the Kosovo crisis and the challenges ahead there and more widely in the region.


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Review: Chime - Franny Billingsley
Where I got it: My collection
Cover Rating: 3.5 stars (Meh.)
Publisher: Dial
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Briony knows she's a witch and knows she's done terrible things. She makes sure to remember to hate herself everyday. She also remembers to take care of her twin sister Rose. She does these things, because her stepmother constantly reminded her of how she was terrible because she was a witch. Now though, things are starting to happen and Briony has a new set of things to blame herself for. She's stayed away from the swamp like her stepmother told her to, but circumstances cause her to end up in the swamp again. While she's there, someone is killed and Briony's sure it's her fault. She doesn't want to confess though because they hand witches. Even though Briony hates herself she still quite likes being alive. It doesn't hurt that a stranger has come to town and Briony's taken up with him. Eldric doesn't treat Briony as she expects to be treated, he makes her feel wonderful. The question is though, will he still thinks she's so wonderful once he learns all her dark secrets? Does Briony even know how deep her secrets go?
This was quite an enjoyable read. I loved the take on fairies and spirits and witches. It was different and exciting. It was easy to suspect the basis of what was going on, but it was still enjoyable to figure out what exactly what happened. Everything became so twisted in Briony's mind, that it was nice to finally have it all laid out.
One thing that really bugged me was how the Old Ones spoke. It was totally fitting, but just made me fidgety. I could only read it in a creepy high pitched old witch voice and it was a bit off-putting. Fitting, yes. Enjoyable, not so much for me.
I also feel like this needs a sequel, there are quite a few things that were not concluded. Whatever happened to green girl? Maybe my need for a sequel comes from feeling like I didn't know some of the characters that well. The Chime Child and Briony's father are pretty mysterious and I would love to know more about them.
This novel was a lot of fun though. I had a hard time putting it down, because I wanted to know what was going to be unveiled next. I also adored Eldric. He was such a charming man and I just really enjoyed him and Briony together. He off set her sour hateful nature. It was a delight to read about them and solve the mystery of Briony's memory and see all the lovely people that Briony surrounds herself with, save for Cecil and Leanne. Though, in Briony's defense she doesn't really want these people around. Cecil seems like a good enough sort of chap. Things get a bit rough between him and Briony, but I think that's a problem of his instead of a personality trait. Leanne just oozes pure evil. She kind of reminds me of Lindsay Pearce as Harmony on Glee. Just a very big personality with a hint of something you just don't like about her. I don't think I could stand to be in her presence all that long either.
Now I'm interested to check out Franny Billingsley's other novels to see if they have that slight twist on how we know things to be. She blends the real world with the magical so seemlessly, that I 'm still waiting for a Brownie to show up and skitter around my feet speaking to me kindly. If you are looking for a supernatural book that's just a bit different in a totally awesome way, grab this one.
"I've confessed to everything and I'd like to be hanged."
Favorite Line:
"They were soft and wet, just a little wet, but I could drown in them."
Labels: 3.5-4 Stars
Vegan YA Nerds April 20, 2013 at 9:52 PM
I didn't know much about this but I recognised the cover right away (I don't love it, either). It sounds like an intriguing story, and a good mix of elements, too.
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Home » Environment » Judge rules for Sipekne'katik First Nation in Alton Gas case
Judge rules for Sipekne'katik First Nation in Alton Gas case
But Justice Suzanne Hood's decision doesn't halt work on the project.
by Jennifer Henderson January 31, 2017 November 29, 2022
The Sipekne'katik flag waves at the proposed brine storage site. Photo: Tori Ball /rabble.ca
A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has quashed a decision made by Environment Minister Margaret Miller last April. The Minister rejected a First Nations appeal of her department's decision to proceed with the controversial $320 million dollar Alton Natural Gas Storage project near Stewiacke.
The Sipekne'katik First Nation is concerned about the potential impact on fish in the Shubenacadie River from salty water to be released into the river after carving out salt caverns one kilometre underground to store natural gas fuel. Although the project proposed nearly 10 years ago has received the necessary environmental permits from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, it continues to face protests and vocal opposition from some local residents and a neighbouring First Nations community. Lawyers for the Sipekne'katik allege the band has not been properly consulted by the province.
Justice Suzanne Hood says a section in the Canadian constitution makes it clear that when aboriginal interests are affected, the authorities owe First Nations people "a higher level of procedural fairness." Hood ruled the province did not meet that standard when one of its lawyers rejected a request from a First Nations lawyer to share or disclose hundreds of pages of information from the Office of Aboriginal Affairs supporting the government's position that it had indeed carried out adequate consultations.
Explained Hood:
The first (document) was entitled "Summary of concerns raised in Sipekne'katik First Nation's appeal of the Alton Gas Storage Project Industrial Approval and related media reports," a four-page document. The second was entitled "OAA Consultation Record of Meetings and Correspondence with Sipekne'katik First Nation on the Alton Gas Project." It was eight pages in length and listed 107 items. The third document was entitled "OAA Chronology of Sipekne'katik First Nation Consultation Funding/Process Development." It was a four-page document listing 48 items.
The first report was written by Greg Warner, a lawyer and senior policy analyst for the provincial Department of Environment. That report is referred to in Hood's decision as "the Warner report."
Lawyers for the Sipekne'katik First Nation argued they should be permitted to know the basis of the government's case. Hood ruled the government's failure to provide the band with that information constituted "procedural unfairness," which invalidated the minster's decision to reject the band's appeal of the Alton Project's approval.
"It is this material that Sipekne'katik did not have as well as the Warner report. As a result, I conclude the decision of the Minister should be quashed. It was not procedurally fair in the circumstances of this case," wrote Hood.
By declaring the Minister's decision procedurally unfair, the judge noted she was ruling only on the process which led up to the decision and not on the substance or fairness of the decision itself. She also declined to consider the issue of whether adequate consultation between the province and Indian Brook First Nations community had taken place — saying the unfairness decision made such a ruling "unnecessary."
That central issue blew up in the government's face when Department of Justice lawyer Alex Cameron argued the province had no legal duty to consult because the Mi'kmaq were "a conquered people." Premier Stephen McNeil subsequently apologized to the First Nation for what some aboriginal leaders called "a racist taunt." McNeil said the legal argument did not reflect the government's or his personal position. Cameron's argument with respect to "no duty to consult" was withdrawn and he was removed from the case.
In essence, the impact of Hood's ruling scraps the province's previous rejection of the First Nations appeal and orders the minister to revisit the Sipekne'katik request to reconsider the decision to green light Alton Natural Gas Storage. At the same time, the judge refused a request by the First Nation to halt work on the project owned by AltaGas now dormant for the winter.
Tagged: development, environment, Indigenous
I feel a little bit sorry for the Alton Gas Project proponents. Their science seems to be good, and they seem to have applied for and received all of the necessary permits to allow their project to go ahead. They seem to have followed the process laid out for them by the permitting departments, but still they are fighting a rearguard action.
I think that the biggest problem that Alton Gas has is that the citizens of Nova Scotia do not believe that the provincial Department of Environment will actually protect our environment, so the reflexive attitude is to simply oppose everything so we will not have to rely on the Department of Environment. Most of us are all too familiar with our environmental challenges that seem to always be resolved in favour of big business. Boat Harbour, the Truro rendering plant, clearcutting, rivers running muddy.
As many have pointed out, if we had a robust regulatory process that citizens could have confidence in, these large projects would not face quite the opposition they do now. Who really thinks that a stop-work order would be issued if something went wrong with the the Alton Gas brining procedures. Not me.
For myself, I can't say I can speak in an informed way to the merits or otherwise of the Alton project. But I'm opposed to it for the same reason I'm opposed to pipelines: while they may make "sense" on their own terms (safety, markets, etc), they add to the collective carbon infrastructure that is killing the planet. We need to get off fossil fuels stat, and every new pipeline or gas storage facility is a sunk cost committing ourselves to more carbon extraction.
"Getting off fossil fuels" is no small matter. As a thought experiment, consider how your life would be affected if you were on a 1950's energy budget. I grew up in the 1950's in Dartmouth. We shovelled coal into the furnace, and the house was often cool. No thermostat to keep it at an even temperature all night. Our milk was delivered in a horse-drawn wagon. We kids always walked to school, rain or snow. My father walked to work. We had a car but we rarely drove it. Vacations were never overseas. Travel to Ontario was by train. By the late 1960's there might have been a plane trip for the adults every other year. No home electronics. No cable TV or internet. We had a clothesline instead of a dryer. Very few home appliances.
By the 1970's our energy budget was probably similar to current energy budgets, but to get off fossil fuels we have to go way back. Where I now live the energy budget in the 1950's consisted almost exclusively of muscle power, and perhaps some gasoline for a truck.
Getting off fossil fuels will involve a major change in almost everyone's lifestyle. No small matter.
For sure. Tough task. Maybe we should just let the planet die. Fuck the children and such. Too much trouble.
Or, we could start living the changes that will be necessary. Live in a small house. Heat with wood. Walk or bike to work. Drive less. Travel less. Eat local and in season. Cook real food. Store shelf stable food, not frozen. Hang the clothes to dry. Learn a useful skill (tailoring, cobblering?) and teach it to your grandchildren. Practice LESS: Less energy, less stuff, less stimulation.
And when we do enjoy profligate energy use (as we all will ) be mindful of it.
So why do we need more pipelines and gas storage facilities?


A Long Island judge has been accused of breaking into an East Islip home to steal women's underpants. Greg Cergol reports.
A Long Island judge has been accused of breaking into a home to steal women's underpants.
Robert Cicale, a Republican district court judge from Suffolk County, was cuffed Thursday morning after a 23-year-old woman living on Donna Place in East Islip allegedly found him in her home, according to Suffolk County Acting Police Commissioner Stuart Cameron.
Cicale allegedly darted out of the home when he was spotted. The woman, meanwhile, called her mother who then called 911.
Officers found Cicale a few blocks away, according to Cameron.
"He was found to be in possession with soiled female undergarments that we believe were either proceeds of this burglary or a prior burglary," he said.
He was charged with second-degree burglary.
He was scheduled to be arraigned in Central Islip on Friday. Cicale said nothing to reporters as he was led from a police precinct in the morning. Attorney information for him wasn't immediately available.


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They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight.
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This Cheesy Crock Pot Shrimp Dip that is hot, creamy, and full of tender shrimp will be the hit of your next get-together!
Combine all of the ingredients except for the green onions in your crock pot. Cover and cook on low for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with green onions right before serving. Serve hot with toasted bread or crackers.
You can spoon this into a dish to serve, but I suggest leaving it in the crock pot on the warm setting and serving it from there.


The match of Viking FK vs Haugesund in Europe Friendlies is started at 2019-3-25 00:59. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is Viking FK0.0; The initial Goals Odds is 2.5,3.0; The initial Corner Odds is 9.5. Totally, Viking FK and Haugesund fought for 10 times before. Over Goals occurred for 4 times and Over Corners occurred for 1 times. Viking FK got 1 win, 2 draw and 2 lost with 8 Goals For and 11 Goals Against.
For the last 15 matches, Viking FK got 8 win, 5 lost and 2 draw with 41 Goals For and 26 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 2.7 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.7 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 80%; The rate of Handicap Win is 47%; The rate of win is 53%; The average of corners is 5.6 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 69%.
For the last 15 matches, Haugesund got 6 win, 9 lost and 0 draw with 16 Goals For and 23 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 1.1 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.5 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 67%; The rate of Handicap Win is 40%; The rate of win is 40%; The average of corners is 5.3 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 50%.
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By U.S. Embassy Lome | 22 March, 2019 | Topics: Chargé D'Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, embassy, Events, News, Overseas Security Advisory Council, Press Releases | Tags: Capabilities, Improve Disaster, North Dakota National Guard, Response, Togo, U.S., Work Together
Deputy Chief of Mission Michael DeTar Remarks at Launching of Nenyo City Good Governance Initiative
Deputy Chief of Mission Michael DeTar Remarks Launching of Nenyo City Good Governance Initiative Prefecture of Zio September 27, 2018 Mister Prefect of Zio Mister Mayor of Tsevie Representatives of the diplomatic corps Distinguished guests Ladies and Gentlemen Good morning and thank you all for being here. Today marks an important step forward in the evolution …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 27 September, 2018 | Topics: American Spaces, Deputy Chief of Mission, Speeches | Tags: Good Governance, Initiative, Launching
Opening remarks by Mr. Michael DeTar, Deputy Chief of Mission on Exchange on professional coverage of street events and political news
Embassy of the United States of America, Lomé Public Affairs Section Exchange on professional coverage of street events and political news Date: December 18 – 20, 2017 Opening remarks by Mr. Michael DeTar, Deputy Chief of Mission Madam and Mr. Moderators, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear colleagues, It is a pleasure for me to address you …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 19 December, 2017 | Topics: Deputy Chief of Mission, Education, Speeches | Tags: DCM, Exchange, political demonstration, political news, professional coverage, street events
New English ACCESS Microscholarship program launched in Kara
On November 14 Deputy Chief of Mission Michael DeTar officially launched the English ACCESS program in Kara, in the north of Togo. The program will provide two years of intensive English language education, as well as an introduction to U.S. culture and values, to 60 underprivileged students. The Embassy has previously supported English ACCESS programs …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 22 November, 2017 | Topics: Deputy Chief of Mission, Education, English Language Learning, Events, News | Tags: Access program kara, Complexe Scolaire La Fraternité, Deputy Chief of Mission
"Mo-Lab" mobile learning center takes STEM learning on the road
On Nov. 15, PAS Lome conducted a trial run of its new mobile learning center, called 'Mo-Lab." The objective of the project is to encourage learning in the science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) fields, especially among poor, rural youth in Togo. The vehicle was completely renovated, painted, and equipped with wi-fi, computers, a …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 21 November, 2017 | Topics: American Spaces, Deputy Chief of Mission, Education, English Language Learning, Events, News, Science & Tech | Tags: activities, educational games, EducationUSA advisor, Lycee Scientifique, mobile learning, STEM learning
Young activists ready to push forward Togolese Civil Society Agenda
Chargée d'affaires Dana Banks gave completion certificates to sixty young Togolese activists on January 20 at the U.S. Embassy. Those young activists from Lome and Maritime Region took part in the first of two six-week "civil society certification" training course aiming at encouraging participants to feel empowered and consider the myriad ways that individual contributions …
By U.S. Embassy Lome | 24 January, 2017 | Topics: American Spaces, Chargé D'Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Events, News | Tags: citizen, Civil, democracy, society


As the voting demographic changes to reflect the true makeup of American communities, and as more and more Americans are striving to have their voices heard in key elections, we must take steps to make sure voting practices are equitable.
America is changing: demographically, socially, and ideologically; and the voting pool is increasingly reflecting these trends. For instance, as the Hispanic population remains on a steady rise in the U.S., in 2018 more than 29 million of America's eligible voters are Spanish-speaking. According to the Pew Research Center, this group's level of engagement in and enthusiasm for elections was at a historic high this year. And as evidenced with the number of women and minorities heading into elected positions after Novembers ballot, these groups clearly represent some of the dominant demographics taking political power as we head into 2019.
Turnout for the 2018 midterm election shattered records across the board – reports claim that this was the highest number of voters participating in any midterm in history and the first time turnout has hit 49% of eligible voters in a midterm year in half a century. Enthusiasm was evident early on, with Americans voting early across the nation in record numbers. In fact, in some states (including Texas, Nevada, and Arizona), early voters surpassed all votes cast in the 2014 midterms.
In addition to record turnout, this election showcased many other amazing 'firsts' and 'mosts' that reflect our country's changing makeup. Record-breaking numbers of candidates of color, millennials, and female contenders (the most IN HISTORY, including the first victorious Muslim American and Native American headed to Capitol Hill) participated in elections nationwide. Statewide races across the Southeast were tighter than they have been in decades, and for the FIRST TIME EVER, an African-American woman ran an extremely tight race for Governor in the deep South (Georgia). As contenders came forth from different backgrounds, ethnicities, age groups, and genders, voters came out in droves to support their candidate of choice.
But with record turnout comes associated logistical snafus, mismanaged procedures, and opportunities for manipulation. Reports of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and tampering abounded. And while voter turnout was higher than usual, it remains abundantly clear is that certain populations face inequitable hardships when it comes time to show up to vote and to have their vote truly count.
So many of our neighbors don't vote because they don't have transportation to the polls, don't have access to early voting, cannot take off work, or are misinformed about identification requirements of polling locations. In some states voters become ineligible if they didn't vote in prior elections, making it especially difficult to get back in the election game. Our voting system is far from equitable – and it needs work.
To further complicate things, in some states, districting issues effectively make certain votes count more than others. In cases of "selective districting," maps are manipulated to better serve one party over another. The result is that some voter's ballots are weighted more heavily. In North Carolina, for example, district maps were redrawn in 2016 in a way that concentrates Democratic votes into small districts where they are guaranteed wins, and spreads the remainder of the state into the many more districts where Republicans have huge margins. This admitted effort "to gain partisan advantage on the map" for Republican candidates has been challenged in court, and is presumably a dominant reason that although Democrats received roughly half of the state's votes for state House of Representatives but will take only 23 percent of the seats in January.
These issues surrounding voter rights and equity are not lost on the masses. Interestingly enough, one of the biggest winners nationwide this election day was voting rights itself: according to the ACLU, ballot initiatives aimed at strengthening voting rights passed with sweeping majorities in four states (Florida, where felons who have served their entire sentences will now be eligible to vote; Maryland and Michigan, which have become the 16th and 17th states to allow election day registration, among other changes; and Nevada, which established automatic voter registration). In an answer to the ongoing gerrymandering problem nationwide, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, and Utah all passed initiatives to create independent commissions that will draw their states' congressional districts moving forward. Momentum is building to fix the system before 2020. One important first step to doing so is to improve the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was weakened by a 2013 lawsuit.
SACE remains a steadfast advocate for equitable voter rights across the board; we continue to push for fair and transparent systems that lift up all voices and provide a platform for every American to be heard. We are working every day to support efforts to ensure that all eligible Americans are empowered to vote, and that every vote counts equally. Moving forward we are excited to watch the growing trends of this more diverse, younger, female-powered and all-inclusive South and country and to amplify all voices as we call for a clean, safe, and healthy future.


Simon plays a struggling actor in "L.A. Confidential" which also stars fellow Aussie's Guy Pierce and Russell Crowe.
Oh my gosh! I'd totally forgotten he was in this! It was in the days before I knew he existed: before The Mentalist. He looks SO handsome in this! Thanks "SelinaKyle" for reminding me of his role in this.


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